Ralf Guetlein wrote:
Chris, you are right. An internal power switch would have been helpful. But 1) it costs money and 2) I never had this kind of problem with other controllers. A reset button is normally a good as a power switch.
1) i meant that you should put it in the developement device you're using on your desk, not in the final product...
2) other MCUs, ok, but on the other hand der are controllers that dont even have a JATG ;-) i just mean, comparing with other MCUs is not an easy task. and no, a reset buttons does not have to be as good as a power cycle... e.g. a reset may not initialize RAM, while a power cycle does etc. on the MSP430 you can configure the reset pin as NMI interrupt input (altough that mode is cleared after each NMI, so that two pulese make a reset, if the software doen not reconfigure it to NMI in between)
chris
